Terry Martin

Terry Martin

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies

Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00-1:30

Terry Martin is the author of The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR, 1923–1939 (Cornell UP, 2001) and co-editor (with Ronald Suny) of A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford UP, 2001). In addition to questions of nationality and empire, he has written on religion, political and administrative history, Soviet neo-traditionalism, and the political police, as well as the Nazi-Soviet comparison. He is currently completing a book on the politics and sociology of state information-gathering in the USSR from the revolution through the death of Stalin.

Contact Information

Center for Government and International Studies-South Building
Room S328
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138